'Frasier' Revival Adds 6 Guest Stars For Season 2

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  Frasier is pegging its guest stars, and with its success firmly established, is getting more reaches back into its past for its Paramount+ revival’s second season, currently deep into production. It turns out, Peri Gilpin increasing her presence by recurring as Roz is attracting more old KACL friends and colleagues. Dan Butler and Edward Hibbert will be stopping by, reprising their roles as Bob “Bulldog” Briscoe and Gil Chesterton, while Amy Sedaris , Yvette Nicole Brown and Patricia Heaton will be guest starring as new characters. Star Kelsey Grammer ’s daughter Greer will be playing Roz’s daughter Alice. Of this crop, it was Sedaris’s casting that was reported first. She is set to appear as Dr. “Doc” Stathos, described as “a municipal therapist with a down home, scattered veneer. She works with the firefighters at Freddy’s firehouse and is also a big… fan of Frasier Crane from his old TV talk show.” She first gained fame co-creating and starring in the Comedy Central sketch se
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'Lioness' Promotes Thad Luckinbill To Series Regular For Season 2

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Have some pride, Thad Luckinbill, you’ve been promoted! The longtime The Young and the Restless cast member will now have a bigger place in the cast of Paramount+ original series Lioness, fka Special Ops: Lioness as he has been upped to series regular after recurring as CIA Agent Kyle during its first season.

Along with his three stints as J.T. Hellstrom on the soap since 1999 (the latest being last year), this is seemingly otherwise his first series regular role since. His previous recurring gigs include MTV’s Undressed and The CW’s Nikita in their respective debut seasons, and ABC’s 8 Simple Rules in the seasons where it had a fuller title. He is also a producing partner at Black Label Media with such under his belt as as La La Land, Sierra Burgess Is a Loser, Demolition starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Devotion, Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody, and Sicario. His own film acting credits include Just Married, Sleepover, and Reptile.

Renewed for season 2 just about a week before, Inspired by an actual United States military program, Lioness is about Joe, played by Zoe Saldaña as she attempts to balance her personal life and being the tip of the CIA’s spear in the war on terror and their efforts to thwart the next major attack. She is tasked to train Cruz Manuelos, played by Laysla De Oliveira, a rough-around-the-edges but passionate young Marine recruited to join the CIA’s Lioness Engagement Team to help bring down a terrorist organization from withinz  The drama also stars Michael Kelly as Donald Westfield who co-runs the program with Nicole Kidman’s Kaitlyn Meade, and Morgan Freeman as Edward Mullins, with Dave Annable, Jill Wagner, LaMonica Garrett, James Jordan, Austin Hébert, Jonah Wharton and Hannah Love Lanier rounding out the cast. The series is executive produced by Sheridan, David C. Glasser, Saldaña, Kidman, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Jill Wagner, David Lemanowicz, Geyer Kosinski, Michael Friedman and Keith Cox.

Source: Deadline

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